As previously reported Nickelodeon GAS is ceasing production after 6am tomorrow (12/31) morning. This is your final chance to watch and DVR shows like GUTS, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Figure it Out, Get the Picture, Double Dare 2000, and Nick Arcade. While they say it’s going Broadband, for some reason I don’t think Viacom cares enough to actually go through with it. While the channel may be crap now, the shows are still golden and this is your last shot to see them.
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Goodbye Nick Gas! As said in the article, the schedule might be crap but the shows on there were good and entertaining to watch.
OLMEC: “The Golden DVD of the last day of Nick GaS, can be found in the ShrIne…of the Silver Monkey!
Ben I think that said it all. ;) I can only hope it does go broadband so we can still enjoy these shows. If not they should highly consider releasing them on itunes ect. for download. R.I.P. Nick GaS
I rather watch Telletubbies then watch what they are showing on Nickeledeon right now. Nick GaS was a great channel and I don’t see why they canceled it. I don’t know about the rest of you guys about how Nick aires where you live, but here in Connecticut Nick has 5 different channels. The regular Nick, Nicktoons, Noggin, GaS (now The N), and another Nick channel, but this one is from the central or western time zone I’m not sure. They could of gotten rid of that one from the eastern side, I’m not sure what they would do for the central and western parts, but something tells me Nick and Viacom where too thick headed. Like Brent said, we should hope they put the shows on ITunes for people to download
Note: Viacom/Nick lied, its not online following the RIP of the cable network… :)
My household is so disappointed since we always watched and loved GUTS, legends of the hidden temple, Double Dare 2000, and more. Hope it comes back.
Pat: that other Nick would be the west coast feed. Just in case you missed a show three hours ago :P
K, thank you for telling me that. But like I said, I live on the east side in Connecticut so I don’t know that much about the time zones cause Im in the first part of the U.S time zone
I smell something shitty brewing about. I recall completely that Dish Network said that they confirmed they would have both Noggin AND The N as seperate channels on 12/31 and what do I see? Oh wow what were the odds? IT’s NICK GAS everybody….still on the air…for some reason…I can’t figure out. :|
There was a problem in the switchover to The N, so Dish is getting the Automated Feed of Nick Gas. Nobody knows when The N will take the channel over.
Hopefully never. I’d rather watch endless reruns of the My L’il Reminder ad over the N. It is just a combination of One Tree Hill & Gossip Girl. And I swear I saw two people making out during one of their ads.
Do you have anything against making out? Anyway, my cable system doesn’t even have the channel where Nick GaS used to be.
When I fired up the TiVo today, there was a message stating that The N had been added and Nick GAS was now gone. I didn’t watch it much anymore, but I certainly will miss it.
yah but what happened to the Broadband’ness of their reasoning when removing GAS?
I made the DVD but because of the channel sucking so much there was shows played the same twice. This is BS, Where is the broadband version of nick gas?
Echostar is still running Nick GAS off the automated feed, at least for now.
Nick GAS’s lineup look weird & boring since Double Dare left in Late Nov. 2004. sure its no longer on Digital Cable but its still on DISH satellite for now on.
Nick GaS became an extension of the former Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando FL. Nickelodeon felt it could create a “Hollywood” on the east coast, so it entered into some sort of agreement with Universal and built the studio complex.
Nickelodeon Studios was designed to host live action shows, such as GUTS, Legends of the Hidden Temple and the various incarnations of Double Dare. There were some regular shows recorded there too.
One of the problems Nickelodeon ran into was that celebrities had no intentions of relocating from Southern California to the Orlando FL area. This meant that Nickelodeon would have to fly people in from California, put them up in hotels and then fly them back out.
Another problem was that interest in the shows Nickelodeon produced (including live action shows) at the studios fell. Many were the days when Universal Theme Park was full of tourists, but very few people ventured over to the studio for a tour. With no interest in the programs and few visitors to the complex, many of the companies that had sponsored shows in the past decided to stop doing business with Nickelodeon.
All of the above problems (and maybe a few others) were just too much to overcome so in 2005, Nickelodeon folded their tents, turned off the lights in the studios for the last time, and walked away.
The live action shows, while entertaining, show their age much more than animated programs do. For example, hair and clothing styles (at least for guys) have changed since the 90s. This may very well be part of the reason Nickelodeon decided to focus on animated programs.
Depending on contractual arrangements, any residuals (the money paid to the hosts today for the work they did 15-20 years ago) could prove to be a deal breaker should someone desire to show GaS programs on another channel. The residual problem becomes worse for scripted shows.
No questions about it, Nick Studios and Nick GaS left their mark on a generation of kids. But time has moved on. Today’s kids will have their own things to look back on 15-20 years from now much like the kids of the 90s do today.
Just to continue with my post from February 25th. Over on youtube comments, posted on videos that involve Nickelodeon Studios and/or Nick GaS, tend to be very critical of Nickelodeon & Blue Man Group. Comments range from “Why did Nickelodeon take GaS off the air and move it to turbonick?” to “I hate Blue Man Group for what they did to Nickelodeon Studios”.
People are forgetting that Nickelodeon Studios was empty for over a year before Blue Man Group moved it. Without BMG and the other organizations that use the facilities now, Universal could have easily torn the buildings down and used the land for other purposes.
Today, the buildings are still doing what they were designed to do…..entertain people. The only difference is that Nickelodeon is not the one in there doing the entertaining. Nickelodeon simply could not sustain the vision that caused it to build the complex in the first place.
The studios could very well have been kept alive if:
1) Celebrities were willing to either relocate or live part time in the Orlando area.
2) Interest in the shows that were produced in the facility remained strong.
3) The number of visitors to the complex stayed strong or grew stronger.
With no source of new programming, Nick GaS was reduced to broadcasting a small number of shows with the same episode broadcasting 4 or 5 times a day and then repeating every 3 or so months. With no original programs, trying to get companies to advertise on GaS would have been a hard sell to say the least.
Faced with that reality, Nickelodeon moved GaS to turbonick and put “The N” in its place.
If Nickelodeon ever decided to go back to producing live action shows, it would be a safe bet that production would take place in southern California and not Orlando for the reasons mentioned above and in my comments from February.
Nickelodeon Studios and Nick GaS live on though memories, photos and recordings. Kids of the 90s have much they can look back on and remember their childhoods. Don’t forget that the Nickelodeon time capsule is still around and is scheduled to be opened in 2042.